Improvement in ironing-machines



MFETERS, FNOYWLITHOGRAPHER. WASNINGYON. [1C

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Letters Patent No. 104,7

7G, dated June 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN :nombre-MACHINES.

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,A The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part ofthe same.

To all whom 'it may concern.- y

13e it known that LALvn C. SAwrn, of Canton, in the county of St.Lawrence, in the State of YNew York, have invented an improved TailorsPressir, 1; Machine and I do hereby declare that the following is atrue, full, and exact description thereof,

reference being had to. the accompanying drawings and to the letters ofreference marked thereon.

The nature of myimprovement consists in rendering tailors pressingmachines more simple, cheaper,-

and, at the same tinic, more effectual. Figure 1 isa perspective view;and Figure 2 apart Sectional end view, showing my inode Vol raisingthepressing-arm and goose.

i its underside, clamping the ball D, thus forming a ball andsocket-joint between the jointed arm L S and tbegoose 0, which enablesthe goose to be readily turned in'any direction by taking hold of thepart M of its handle.

H is the press-board to lay the. work upon.

Underneath the table is a weighted lever, I, pivoted at K, Wrepresenting the weight. The frontend of the lever is connected by therod E to the treadle-lever at T. The weight \V should be suioient, byany adjustment, to raise the goose clear of the board H,'Or to balanceit. 'lo bring pressure upon the goose it is only necessary to press uponthe foot N of the lever, its several joints above the table allowingperfect control of the goose. y

-Having lthus described my inventionl \Vhat I claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

The combinationof the pivoted treadle-lever R N, jointed arm L S, gooseO, with its ball and socketshown and described.

. C. SAWYER.

Witnesses z F'. O. MURPHY,

WILLIAM Denon.

joint, when combined and arranged in the manner as

